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‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008) (2008)
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Biskup, T. (2008). ‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008)

Der Hof blieb auch für Friedrich den Großen unabdingbar, um im höfisch strukturierten Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts Politik machen zu können. Finanzierung, Personaldecke und Infrastruktur des friderizianischen Hofes waren auch im Vergleich zu anderen H... Read More about ‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008).

Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2008). Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest. Popular Communication, 6(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405700802198113

This paper examines Eurovision as a site for the public representation of the nation and explores the tendency towards simulation in such representations. The contest’s transnational audience and implication in commercial practices create pressures t... Read More about Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest.

The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (2008)
Journal Article
Wilson, P. H. (2008). The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. English Historical Review, CXXIII(502), 554-586. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen160

The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was the most destructive conflict in Europe before the twentieth-century world wars. There are several explanations of what caused the war, but these rarely discuss the merits of alternative interpretations, nor do they... Read More about The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48.

William Marshal and the Mercenariat (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). William Marshal and the Mercenariat. In Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages (15 - 32). Brill

A look at attitudes to the mercenary amongst the established aristocracy as viewed through the source of the biography of William Marshal

The Transformation of Medieval Gwent (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). The Transformation of Medieval Gwent. In The Gwent County History 2, The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536, (16803). University of Wales Press

A history and analysis of the establishment of Marcher lordships in Gwent between 1067 and 1245.

An empire built on sand (2008)
Book Chapter
Smith, S. (2008). An empire built on sand. In Britain and the Middle East: from imperial power to junior partner (48 - 65). Sussex Academic Press

King Stephen and Northern France (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). King Stephen and Northern France. In King Stephen's Reign, 1135-1154 (44 - 57). Boydell

A study of the relations between King Stephen of England (1135-1154), the king of France and the princes of Northern France

Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters (2007)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2007). Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters. Historical Social Research ==, 32(3), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.32.2007.3.103-114

Disasters have two historical trajectories, one 'natural' in that they involve one or more physical hazards and the other societal in that they are largely culturally determined. They are 'historical' in the sense that both forces change over time. C... Read More about Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters.

German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800 (2007)
Journal Article
Biskup, T. (2007). German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800. Francia : Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte, 34(2), 61 - 87

In the history of migration, the émigrés of the French Revolution have long remained marginalised although they formed an important element of cultural transfer in the decades around 1800 when the Old Regime came to an end across the European contine... Read More about German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800.

Population matters in Native America (2007)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2007). Population matters in Native America. In P. D. Davies, & I. Morgan (Eds.), America's Americans: Population issues in U.S. society and politics. Institute of Latin American Studies

Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (2007)
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Ray, K. (2007). Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. University of Tennessee Press

During its early years, the frontier region of Middle Tennessee developed from thinly settled outposts to a premier destination for thousands of land-hungry immigrants. The resulting population explosion led to a shift in political power from a small... Read More about Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier.